Last night, the radical punks who shouted down and chased Tom Tancredo from the podium last week in Chapel Hill got put in their place during a speech by former Virginia congressman Virgil Goode. All it took was for UNC officials to accept some responsibility for maintaining a relatively civil discourse instead of letting the mob take over.

Perhaps my favorite comment of the evening was by a middle-aged man who said, “Jesse Helms once said we don’t need a zoo in North Carolina, all we have to do is put a fence around Chapel Hill!”